Paper Info
Title
A distributed topology information system for optical networks based on the semantic web
Abstract
The research networking community has embraced novel network architectures to provide e-Science applications with dedicated connections instead of shared links. IP and optical services converge in these new infrastructures to form hybrid networks. Lightpaths are the services offered to clients in the optical portion of the network. They are chosen because they guarantee the appropriate QoS in terms of bandwidth and latency. NDL-the Network Description Language-is a data model offering users and providers of lightpaths with a common ontology to describe topology information of hybrid optical networks. The strength of NDL is that it supports a wide range of applications, including pathfinding, visualisation and asset management, via the definition of a common data model to exchange network descriptions. Since NDL is based on the Semantic Web techniques, it is straightforward to relate NDL with application-specific ontologies. In this paper we present the current status of the NDL schemas and its use in several applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1016/j.osn.2008.01.006
Optical Switching and Networking
Keywords
Field
DocType
Network descriptions,Semantic web,Resource description framework,Hybrid networks,Inter-domain pathfinding
Ontology (information science),Information system,Ontology,Computer science,Network architecture,Semantic Web,Computer network,Quality of service,Data model,RDF,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
5
2-3
Optical Switching and Networking
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
25
2.54
8
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jeroen van der Ham118019.08
Freek Dijkstra211913.63
Paola Grosso333147.74
Ronald Van Der Pol4767.30
Andree Toonk5252.88
Cees de Laat61138149.30